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i have had the same problem, if you expand the ~ to the actual path of
your home directoy, like /home/you/.blackbox/Menu, then it will work fine.
Blackbox doesn't do the tilde expansion for you.
xOr
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Scott Burch wrote:
> I killed gpm before launching blackbox. I believe the mouse is working properly.
>When I right-click I get the Workspaces floating menu. I know blackbox is reading
>.blackboxrc okay because I changed the names of the workspaces and they display just
>fine.
>
> I am seeing an error message in xterm that says "~/.blackbox/Menu does not exist."
>Before anyone goes "doh!" -- I can do a locate and display that file in vi. I did
>updatedb just to make sure. Any ideas? thanks! scott
>
> > I have installed blackbox from the Debian 2.2 CD set using dselect. It
> > launches as the default wm from .xsession, and it comes up operational,
> > except that the root menu will not appear when I right-click and there is no
> > toolbar. I do get the workspaces menu attached to the bottom of the screen.
>
> Are you sure thats really the workspaces menu, or might it be the toolbar?
> Also, my guess is your mouse isn't working properly or isn't configured
> correctly. Even if blackbox can't find your menu file, it still prints a
> default one on right click. Check your X config, as well as how your
> pointer buttons are mapped (xmodmap).
>
> > I have copied the basic menu script to ~/.blackbox/Menu and I edited the
> > .blackboxrc menuFile setting to that absolute path. And still nothing. Any
> > troubleshooting suggestions?
>
> Like I said above, this doesn't sound like a blackbox problem. Does your
> mouse work correctly in other window managers?
>
> > Another question: since I have no root menu with a "restart" command
> > attached to it, is there a way to restart blackbox from the keyboard so that
> > I don't have to reboot the machine each time I make a change?
>
> ctrl-alt-backspace. There are really very few problems in unix which
> require rebooting.
>
> > Debian 2.2 on Mac Quadra 630, 20 MB RAM, two-button Macally mouse.
>
> Good luck.
>
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> Gregory J. Barlow http://barlow.ncssm.net
> NCSSM 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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